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Interesting, product liability suits will cause app operators to actually respond differently, instead of ignoring the suit hoping it goes away under section 230.

I think this more likely gets Congress to expand section 230 to improve the shield, before working on the exceptions again

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I admire your optimism. The only times section 230 has been brought up on the hill in the last decade as been in, admittedly performative and doomed to fail, calls to get rid of it entirely.

SOSTA and FESTA passed with ease in 2018 or so

I expect using it as political futbol needs it to be impervious as is, I think they patch it and continue using it as political futbol

can you ELI5? i have no idea what any of what you wrote means :D

tldr; You are not responsible for the content of your users if you don't have a hand in it. Exeptions like moderating illegal content aside.

Thank you!

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